AMENDMENT TO THE DECREE ON THE COMMITTEE OF STATE CONSTRUCTIONS
265

[The growing] importance of the matter of aid to prisoners of war, which intensified after the conclusion of the Brest Peace, [meant that] the reorganization committee, particularly from March 1918, displayed no signs of life whatsoever, regarding which V. M. Bonch-Bruevich, as a member of the Red Cross committee, brought the matter to Lenin's attention.
26939

AMENDMENT TO THE DRAFT DECREE ON THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF THE CENTRAL COLLEGIUM FOR MATTERS OF PRISONERS
AND REFUGEES¹.
[23 April 1918]

§ 2. The [Central] Collegium acts as an independent institution, 
included in the composition of the K[ommissar]iat [of Internal Affairs], Military, and has the right to submit reports to the Soviet of People's Commissars.

¹ Adopted at the session of the TSIK on 23 April 1918 during the discussion of the draft decree on the establishment of the Central Collegium for matters of prisoners and refugees. The decree was published in "Izvestia VTSIK" No. 84 of 27 April 1918.

11456

NOTE TO M. P. PAVLOVICH.
To Pavlovich.
[9 May 1918]

1) What are you doing with the construction division of the Military Department?
2) How should the construction matters of the Department [of Land] Improvements be distinguished from other matters of this same Department²?

¹ The note to M. P. Pavlovich (Head of the Department of State Constructions at the VSNKh) was written, apparently, at a session of the SNK during the discussion of the decree on the Committee of State Constructions at the VSNKh (see below). Pavlovich's response: "This Department, in comparison with the entire Commissariat, is only a very small part of it. The construction matter is transferred to the Committee of State Constructions; in the development of the plan the Commissariat of Agriculture will also take part, giving specific assignments through a special institution, which is the Hydromodular Division, whose representative is engineer Kondrashov."

11458

AMENDMENT TO THE DECREE ON THE COMMITTEE
OF STATE CONSTRUCTIONS¹
[9 May 1918]

§ 7. In connection with the establishment of the Chief Administration of State Constructions, the following institutions and their parts are transferred to it with their technical apparatus, materials, inventory and credits:

266

N O T E. The detailed rules concerning the transition of the indicated institutions and the order of this transition shall be established by the Co[mmittee of] State [Constructions]¹ by agreement with the corresponding Co[mmissaria]ts.

Chairman of the Council of People's
Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)*.

¹ In order to unite all construction activity of the state, a Committee of State Constructions was established under the Supreme Council of the National Economy.
Into the composition of the executive organ of the Committee — the Chief Administration of State Constructions — there were transferred, by decree, a series of institutions (with their technical apparatus, materials, inventory and credits) subordinate to the NKPS, NKZ and Narkomprod. An addition to the draft decree, in the form of a note to § 7, was sketched by Lenin in pencil on a separate sheet. The draft decree was submitted to the SNK on 9 May 1918. Approved with Lenin's amendment at the same session of the SNK. The decree was published in "Izvestia VTSIK" No. 94 of 14 May 1918.

11456

NOTE TO V. D. BONCH-BRUEVICH.
To the Manager of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars
Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich.

23 May 1918

In view of your failure to comply with my insistent demand that you provide me with the grounds for the increase of my salary from 1 March 1918 from 500 to 800 rubles per month, and in view of the obvious illegality of this increase, effected by you arbitrarily by agreement with the Secretary of the Council Nikolai Petrovich Gorbunov, in direct violation of the decree of the Council of People's Commissars of 23 November 1917, I hereby declare to you a strict reprimand.

Chairman of the Council of People's
Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

¹ The reference is to the SNK decree "On the Amounts of Remuneration for People's Commissars, Senior Officials and
Officials" (published in

* Signatures of V. Bonch-Bruevich and N. Gorbunov follow. Ed.